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Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England — Frederic William Maitland

Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England

Frederic William Maitland

  • History
  • Book language: English
  • 654 pages

Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England is a classic historical study by Frederic William Maitland. In three essays, Maitland uses Domesday Book and other sources to examine landholding, village communities and social change in England before and after the Norman Conquest. It is worth listening to for insight into medieval English law and society.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. Transcriber’s Note
  2. DOMESDAY BOOK AND BEYOND
  3. PREFACE.
  4. CONTENTS.
  5. ESSAY I. DOMESDAY BOOK.
  6. § 1. Plan of the Survey.
  7. § 2. The Serfs.
  8. § 3. The Villeins.
  9. § 4. The Sokemen.
  10. § 5. Sake and soke.
  11. § 6. The Manor.
  12. § 7. Manor and Vill.
  13. § 8. The Feudal Superstructure.
  14. § 9. The Boroughs.
  15. ESSAY II. ENGLAND BEFORE THE CONQUEST.
  16. § 1. Book-land and the Land-book.
  17. § 2. Book-land and Folk-land.
  18. § 3. Sake and Soke.
  19. § 4. Book-land and Loan-land.
  20. § 5. The Growth of Seignorial Power.
  21. § 6. The Village Community.
  22. ESSAY III. THE HIDE.
  23. § 1. Measures and Fields.
  24. § 2. Domesday Statistics.
  25. § 3. Beyond Domesday.
  26. INDEX.
  27. NOTES
  28. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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